Scientists of the University of Florida found out that middle and elderly people having meticillin-resistant golden staphylococcus (or MRSA) on their skin (or MRSA), two times more often die over the next ten years than those who are not carriers of a dangerous bacterium. Article researchers Published in Journal of The American Board of Family Medicine magazine.
Specialists analyzed the data of the National Health and Nutrition Survey for 2001-2004. Information about participants at the age of 40-85 has compared with the data of the national mortality index to track the cases of premature death for the 11-year period. Such third-party factors as gender, race, ethnicity, income level, health condition and hospitalization fact for previous 12 months are taken into account.
Researchers found that the mortality rate among participants without MRSA was about 18 percent, but among participants with sustainable staphylococcus the mortality rate was 36 percent.
Golden Staphylococcus occurs on the skin and in the nose of about a third of Americans, with more than three million people are MRSA carriers resistant to antibiotics. Many people do not know that they are the carriers of an invisible killer, which in about a quarter of cases becomes the cause of deadly infection with a weakened immunite (or when taking antibiotics).
In 2017, 119 thousand Americans developed a staphylococcus infection of blood flow, and almost 20 thousand patients died. Bacteria can get into the body through wounds, surgical cuts or catheters.